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Offside by Jafar Panahi
IRN 2005, Competition
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Jafar Panahi
Offside by Jafar Panahi
IRN 2005, Competition
Before the kick off, she is apprehended at a checkpoint and led away to an enclosure next to the stadium. She is one of many to whom the same fate has befallen and, at the enclosure, she meets a whole group of women all dressed as men. After the game, they will be handed over to the vice squad.
But before that they are forced to endure torture! They have to listen to every roar of the crowd inside the stadium without being able to see the action on the field. Worse still, they are obliged to tolerate the nonsensical comments of one of the guards who clearly hasnt the faintest idea about football. But the young women are determined not to give up. Theyll use every trick they know in order to get to see the game after all.
In his previous films, Jafar Panahi has often highlighted the social dilemmas to which modern Iranian women can be subjected. His current work is a knowing comedy describing one such predicament, and the violation of womens rights that ensues.
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Shadmehr Rastin, Jafar Panahi
Shadmehr Rastin (script-writer, l.) and Jafar Panahi (director) during the press conference for Iranian Competition entry Offside.
Offside · Competition · Programme Press Conference · Feb 17, 2006
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Nezadomin Kiaie, Jafar Panahi
Director Jafar Panahi (r.) and sound designer Nezadomin Kiaie in front of the Berlinale Palast.
Offside · Competition · Berlinale Palast · Feb 17, 2006
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Offside
Nezadomin Kiaie (l.), Jafar Panahi (2nd from left) and Shadmehr Rastin (r.) on the way to the premiere screening of their film Offside in the Berlinale Palast.
Offside · Competition · Berlinale Palast · Feb 17, 2006
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Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi on the Berlinale Palast stage.
Offside · Competition · Berlinale Palast · Feb 17, 2006
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Shadmehr Rastin
Shadmehr Rasti, script-writer of Offside, arriving at the Berlinale Palast.
Offside · Competition · Berlinale Palast · Feb 17, 2006
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Yash Chopra, Pernille Fischer Christensen
Jury member Yash Chopra gives the Grand Jury Prize Silver Bear to Pernille Fischer Christensen, whose film En Soap received the award ex aequo with Jafar Panahi's Offside.
Offside · Competition · Closing Gala · Silver Bear · Feb 18, 2006
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Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi, winner of the Jury's Grand Prize for Offside.
Offside · Competition · Closing Gala · Silver Bear · Feb 18, 2006
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Jafar Panahi
Offside · Competition · Feb 17, 2006
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Shadmehr Rastin (Script), Nezadomin Kiaie (Sound), Jafar Panahi (Director)
Offside
Competition · Press Conference · Feb 17, 2006
Shadmehr Rastin (Script), Nezadomin Kiaie (Sound), Jafar Panahi (Director)
Offside
Competition · Red Carpet · Feb 17, 2006